Create your own soft sculpture in this workshop celebrating craft based artmaking with artist Louise Meuwissen.

Join artist Louise Meuwissen in a workshop celebrating craft-based artmaking as a generative and restorative practice for emotional wellbeing. This workshop celebrates the power of adornment, symbology, and personal expression.

Create your own soft sculpture, in the form of a small, lidded vessel for emotional holding, embellished with recycled vintage and contemporary beads and sequins from Louise’s collection.

In a friendly and relaxed environment, you will be guided through hand-sewing construction techniques and the principles of bead embroidery.

Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged – no prior sewing experience necessary. All materials provided. (Please feel welcome to bring along any materials of significance or sentiment you would like to include in your own work).

This workshop accompanies Louise Meuwissen’s solo exhibition
Of Earth and Ether (Flowers never bend) at Bundoora Homestead
7 October - 16 December 2023. Supported by Creative Victoria’s Creative Projects Fund 2023

About the Artist

Louise Meuwissen works with textiles and found materials to make intricate embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art – transforming components of costume and dress into objects imbued with uncanny psychological and spiritual resonances. Her work employs DIY methodologies and craft techniques to blend post-consumer materials – high and low – with time, care, and attention. Meuwissen’s practice considers the complex individual and collective relationships we form with objects, and how they come to embody meaning and value; carry energetic, symbolic, and intellectual charge; and become anchors for thoughts and beliefs.  Her work is informed by adornment and decoration, and the fluxing of fashion –  underpinned by discarding and collecting, the interplay between labour and luxury, and environmental sustainability. Her practice considers the intangible, unknowable, and mortality, informed by eclectic research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.